El Hurgador (ie Myself) goes away some days for holidays. During this month of October, I'll publish weekly only anniversaries. Those who come to visit have a lot of good stuff I published during the year.

Adonna Kahre is one of my favorite artists in animal drawing. Her imagination has no limits, and her huge compositions full of details and references are delightful; I hope someday I could see some of her creations in the flesh.

I refer to the various previously published posts for more images and information.

Adonna has published recently a selection of details of the work we see here, with several spectacular rhinos, and images of some other no less interesting pieces.

Pending a third post reviewing the work of Pedro Peralta, here you have a couple of rhinos of his show at the MNAV, Montevideo. I recommend a visit to the previous posts for more pictures and information.

"Gulliver en la tierra de los rinovoladores / Gulliver in the Land of Rhinoflyers"

Wang Ruilin is a Chinese artist born in Anshan, Liaoning Province, in 1985.

He was admitted to China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2005.

In 2007 his sculpture Dusk was awarded with the first prize in the annual sculpture exhibition at China Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 2008 he was awarded again with the first prize for his sculpture Reminiscence: Journey to the West.

There's virtually no information about Eduard Wolf-Harnier, one of those many many remarkable German illustrators active around 1900. Like most of them, he is completely forgotten today. He lived in Berlin as a teacher, and was a self-taught amateur artist. He illustrated a couple of childrens' books, but this "Rhino Lady" seem to be unpublished. They were done around 1905-15. Info from here.

Pierre Mathieu is a self-taught artist, born in the south of France in 1964. He graduated from a French and English Business school in 1987 and later became active in the field of international aid to third world countries. In these activities, he traveled extensively to the poorer regions of the world and particularly to Latin America.

It’s at the age of 28 that Pierre Mathieu started to paint. His work was influenced and nourished by his professional activities in developing countries and also by the urban life of modern cities.

In 1996 he moved to the USA. It is there that he really started exhibiting in several art galleries of American cities such as Washington D.C, Santa Fe, Chicago and New York.

He currently lives and works in Marseille in the south of the country. It was in 2001 that he definitely decided to become a full time artist.

His original references are to be found in the after war currents of the Experimental Painting that drove the work of the "COBRA" movement at the end of the 40s in northern Europe, and more particularly the work of Asger Jorn. Later on, artists such as Rauschenberg, De Kooning, Cy Twombly, Baselitz, Basquiat and comic books artist Enki Bilal also were definite influences to his more recent work.

David Gulden is an American photographer born in New York, who has spent at least half of every year, for the past twenty, in Africa, primarily in Kenya. Photographing wildlife alongside the likes of Peter Beard, David Gulden has come to understand that his endeavour is more than one to create appealing artworks, but instead to create a document of the declining landscape of all the precious creatures that live there.

"Mr. Gulden works in two great photographic traditions -- that of Edward Curtis, who devoted his life to documenting the passing of a way of life, and that of Ansel Adams, who wanted to make photos of nature that were indelible. To have combined them is another remarkable accomplishment."

So wrote the Wall Street Journal in a review of photographer David Gulden's most recent book "The Centre Cannot Hold," (Glitterati), published 2012.

«I try to make my photos a bit gritty, a bit raw. I don't wish to over dramatize my subjects and I wish to avoid sentimentality. There's beauty in east Africa's wildlife but it's a stark and often harsh beauty. There's no glory, only survival.»

This is an open art blog, so you could find images eventually offensive or umconfortable.

If you're an artist and find here images of your art you want to be removed, just tell me and I'll do it immediately. I try to ask for permission always if artist is alive and there's a way to contact, bot not always is possible and there are things I think worth to be known.

In any case, the copyrights of all the images contained in this blog, except where noted, belong to the artists or the legal owners of such rights, and have been published nonprofit and for the only purpose of make the works known to the general public.

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